Very important modding issue

[supposedtobeworking]

I think this is important, hence the title, and I have not found a mod that does this, but is it possible to program an audible notification when a contact is reported on the navmap?? i.e. for single contacts as well as convoys as soon as they appear on the map? Because I like to let the time compression go at 256x, and sometimes it can be quite a while until a contact shows up, and in order to catch it I have to be glued to the navmap. It would be nice to be abel to go off and do something else in the game or in real life, while I wait for contacts to be reported audibly, and then drop whatever I am doing or holding (hopefully it will not break) and rush over to the navmap to get a position....that would make SH3 more fun and immersive I think.

If an audible notification is not possible, what about a trigger to drop time copmpression to 1x when a contact does show up on the navmap--this happens occasionally, but more often then not, with convoys esp., by the time I look up to the monitor from reading my book, a contact has shown up and been on the map for 6 or 7 hours game time....

[THE_MASK]

I second that.

[Ducimus]

Somwhere in your MyDocuments/sh3/ directory is a file called main.cfg.It defines time compression settings. Assigning a value of "-1" for a given action will pause the game.

[supposedtobeworking]

assigning--how do you do that? I've checked the existing settings in that file and SH3Cmdr, but no event exists in the file to do what I want. Are you saying that you can specify time compress values for specific events in game by adding the event to the file?? if so, how do you do this? thx

[Ducimus]

Somwhere in MyDocuments/sh3/ is a file called Main.cfg. You can edit this in notepad.

Want to increase your maximum TC to 2048? Thats the file to play with. Want to increase the TC near land to 1024 instead of X1? this is the file. Want to have aircraft warnings pause the game? again, this is the file

[JScones]

Originally Posted by supposedtobeworking

assigning--how do you do that? I've checked the existing settings in that file and SH3Cmdr, but no event exists in the file to do what I want. Are you saying that you can specify time compress values for specific events in game by adding the event to the file?? if so, how do you do this? thx

In SH3Cmdr select SH3 Options then Time Compression. Then just set the required value for the required event. Setting 0 means pause.

"When enemy ship(s) detected" sounds like the one you want.

[kylania]

Originally Posted by JScones

"When enemy ship(s) detected" sounds like the one you want.

Does that include single merchant map only contacts though? Or just sonar/watch crew confirmed contacts?

[Ducimus]

Here's the acutal TC settings in the main.cfg file (err well acutally, these are my TC settings )

[TIME COMPRESSION]
TimeStop=0
RealTime=1
LandProximity=1024
CriticalDamage=1
CrewEfficiency=1
AirEnemyDetected=-1
SoundEffects=2
CharacterAnim=4
EnemyDetected=1
RadioReport=1
Particles=8
PrayState=16
HunterState=32
3DRender=32
Maximum=2048

[JScones]

Originally Posted by kylania

Does that include single merchant map only contacts though? Or just sonar/watch crew confirmed contacts?

Dunno - try it. But I think it is the closest option there is.